in the united states, we have a secret court making secret law. there's a lot of information with the main public that is not going to tip off the bad guys but allow us to have an informed debate since 9/11. >> yahoo!, twitter, google said they will beef up security. what else can the companies do? >> we would like to see the fight back against court orders. we would like to see them get involved in the legislative debate. that is what's so important about today's release. and they are endorsing an idea that the government should not be scooping up all of the information. working with them to take them to the next step and try to pass legislation that will rein in other agencies. >> that was emily chang. this is "bloomberg west" and i am cory johnson. we are going to be looking at exciting new stuff including designs from nike that is changing the way that sneakers work in the future. we will be back when "bloomberg west" continues. ♪ >> a payment startup, crinkle, that a stanford student created, said they will lay off half of their workforce.